what are headers and what do they do??

Headers are replacments for exhaust manifolds and are usually made of metal pipes. The idea is to have a lighter, more breathable unit then original manifolds. The easier your engine breathes, to a certain extent, the more efficient it is and more power it can produce.

The biggest benefit with a well designed set of tube steel headers is that you can create a "scavenging effect" and tune that for a certain RPM range.

What this means is that the long header pipes and the way they join together in the collector will help pull the exhaust out of the cylinders.

Some tests have shown that a well designed set of headers can give you a 15% increase in horsepower.
DD

Dart4life headers can make a diference on certain engine combinations. But just putting on headers on a engine if it is stock might slow you down. It gets into flow management and other stuff ie intake and carb function and other factors. You have to move more into the intake side to take advantge of headers. Here is where the problem is is your car a daily driver a street/strip car or a race car then you can go from there. I can give you some adivise if you can tell me what the car will be .So can Dr Dodge . Been there done the combinations and can tell what is the best bang for the buck. Possum Parker








bagels my buddy but he is in trouble

I am buying a super six set up and i was wondering if headers would be a good idea? and this guy wants to sell me this set up for 125.00 if you would like to help me out and tell me if its a good deal leave me your e-mail and i will send you pics. thanks for your help

How much of the set up are you getting? If it's both manifolds, the carb, air cleaner (pie tin), and all the little stuff that goes with it, $125 sounds like a good price. I just got mine for about that.

I like your sig. The same goes for me to. What year is yours?

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the guy is including everything i thuoght it was a good deal to find a super six i have a 1970 dart custom 4- door and i will never sell it

I had my '70 Duster configured as a "super six" for many years. I also had 3 into 2 full-length Clifford headers and duals. Rounding this out was a stock Chrysler electronic ignition setup. I was very happy with that package and put tens of thousands of miles on it that way, including several round trips from Atlanta-Miami (10+ hour one-way). The block/head was stock 1970 (but freshened up). It got excellent gas mileage (better than the stock 1 bbl) and had decent performance, but not a race machine, of course. It would hold its own with most regular passenger cars of that time.

The only problem I encountered, and it was rare because of the warm climate here, was carb icing at certain atmospheric conditions. There is no (direct) heat at the carb with a header, although there are ways around this, including hot water. My solution, which worked well for me was a manual choke cable (a good one, not a cheesy taiwan one) and I modified a stock super six heat stove (the little sheet metal box around the exh manifold) to fit over three of the header pipes and I hooked it to a functional thermostatic air cleaner. This way the carb gets warm air when it is cold. I still run that setup even with the "super-duper-six" four-barrel...

"DW"

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